Senior Financial Analyst , S3/Glacier Finance
Amazon•Seattle, WA
fulltime
Finance, Information Technology, and Accounting/Auditing
3+ years
Description Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of enterprise, government and start-up business and organizations in over 190 countries around the world. Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services officially began offering developer customers access to web services – now widely known as cloud computing – based on Amazon’s own back-end technology platform. On the AWS Finance team you will be surrounded by people that are exceptionally talented, bright, and driven, and believe that world class support is critical to customer success.
In AWS Finance, you will work with exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people who believe financial partnership is critical to customer success. We benefit from diverse experiences and perspectives and are committed to inclusion as a business advantage and the right thing to do. The growth of AWS and scope of Amazon’s business create opportunities to grow your career and broaden experience in any direction you choose. As a pioneer in cloud services, AWS lets you apply data, creativity, and analytical ability to completely new challenges and opportunities. This is a chance to work hard, have fun, and make history.
AWS Finance seeks a world class Sr. Financial Analyst to be a key member of its team. This position will work closely with finance management as well as key business partners across the AWS organization, to drive thoughtful analysis and controllership in the AWS Storage business.
The successful candidate will provide strong finance support and controllership for S3's costs, implement and drive the core financial processes for the business including Annual Operating Plans, identifying and quantifying financial/operational Risks and Opportunities to the business, and driving ad-hoc business projects.
This role requires a self-starter with a strong financial modeling background, problem solving skills, a keen attention to detail, ability to work in a fast-paced environment with ambiguous situations, and solid skills in project management.
Key job responsibilities
A day in the life
Your day revolves around cross-functional collaboration—partnering with engineering, finance, and operations teams to align capacity planning with business objectives while tracking actual usage and CapEx spend against plan. You'll spend significant time in meetings and discussions, translating complex technical requirements into financial implications, monitoring variances between forecasted and actual consumption, and communicating trade-offs to stakeholders. You'll quickly digest and process technical changes to AWS infrastructure to materialize those in financial impact, including investment returns, risk exposures, and discovering potential saving opportunities to provide business teams with meaningful and actionable recommendations. Throughout the day, you'll coordinate approval workflows, analyze spending trends, provide guidance to team members, and dedicate time to learning AI tools and other internal systems for continuous improvement, driving automation to enhance team efficiency.
About The Team The S3 Finance Cost and Capacity Team supports one of AWS's most critical foundational services, directly impacting not only S3 but also driving cost implications across the entire AWS ecosystem. As a high-profile team working on a service that continues to experience rapid growth, we sit at the strategic intersection of finance, engineering, and operations—translating infrastructure decisions into business impact at massive scale.
Our work influences rack and server landings, procurement strategies, commercial deals, and supports new product pricing decisions. We drive multi-billion dollar capacity investments and cost optimization opportunities that ripple across AWS services, partnering with engineering and business teams to ensure S3's continued success while maintaining financial discipline in one of the cloud industry's most important and fastest-growing services.
Basic Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
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USA, WA, Seattle - 82,700.00 - 117,100.00 USD annually
Company - Amazon.com Services LLC
Job ID: A3159461